200 girls leave government-run residential school hostel in Jamshedpur due to lack of toilets

In a big blow to the programs of toilet in every girls’ school as a part of the ‘Swatchh Bharat’ campaign, a report has surfaced about 200 students leaving a government-run residential school at Ichagarh in Seraikela-Kharswan district of Jharkhand due to lack of toilets – it seems there are just five toilets for the 220 boarders. An unimaginable ratio by any standards.
This town is located hardly 50-Km from the country's premier steel town of Jamshedpur as reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 2 August 2015.

In view of shortage of toilets, the girls had no other alternative but to relieve themselves in the nearby fields, where they were regularly harassed by the local boys. The school warden had approached the Ichagarh police with a written complaint requesting them to check the growing incidents of harassment and the police have intensified patrolling in the area.
Unfortunately, the school does not have any boundary wall and the local boys continue to harass the girls, at times hurling stones at the hostel at night. The school has students up to Class XII.
Obviously, under such conditions, school dropouts will increase and those in the seat of power must work out suitable solutions to overcome such situations.
(Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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